Revealed: Facebook's music plans involve Spotify, others — For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services. However, Facebook's musical ambitions go beyond Spotify and include other music services and applications.

Inside Facebook's Next Billion Dollar Business — Facebook's road to becoming a $100 billion company is to infect every sector of the internet with its social graph, letting other companies build and expand their business on top of it and taking a toll in exchange for that.

New Top-Level Domains Approved by ICANN — The Board of ICANN today gave final approval to the most dramatic change to the Internet in four decades — allowing the expansion of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs). This monumental decision will allow companies and organizations to turn their own brands …

New Net addresses mean new trademark issues — ICANN announced new generic top-level domains (GTLDs) at a news conference in Singapore. From left to right are outgoing Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom, and Senior Vice President of Services Kurt Pritz, who led the GTLD effort.

Best Buy Battles Over Use of ‘Geek’ — Retailer Fights to Protect Squad's Trademark; Putting Rivals—and a Priest—on Notice — Just a few decades ago, a geek was a carnival freak who bit the heads off of chickens and rats. — Then geek became a catchall word for socially maladjusted individuals …

Small Group Rode LinkedIn to Big Payday — For Reid Hoffman, the chairman of LinkedIn, it took less than 30 minutes to earn himself an extra $200 million. — With the hours ticking down to his company's stock market debut, Mr. Hoffman dialed into a conference call from San Francisco's Ritz-Carlton hotel …

Abracadabra! Magic Trumps Math at Web Start-Ups — Over a decade ago, Internet companies promoted new ways to measure their business performance, introducing concepts like “eyeballs” and “mindshare” to investors. — Now the latest wave of Internet start-ups are adding their own particular yardsticks to the valuation vocabulary.

Why Turntable.fm's Lame/Awesome button is awesome — Turntable.fm has certainly created a sensation - over the last couple of weeks it has been one of the hottest topics on the web. — Deservedly. It really changes the game in making music truly social. And the concept, the strategy, and the execution are superb.

Bitcoin prices plummet on hacked exchange — The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page …

The 3 most undervalued tech stocks: Google, Apple, IBM — By the same “PEG” measure, the 3 most overvalued are Amazon, Cisco and Netflix — Click to enlarge. Date: NASDAQ. Chart: PED — Here's a simple exercise suggested by one of my readers. — Take a stock you're interested …

Investors Provide Millions to Risky Start-Ups — PALO ALTO, Calif. — What if you threw a $41 million party and nobody came? A start-up company called Color knows how that feels. — In March, Color unveiled its photo-sharing cellphone application — and revealed that it had raised $41 million …

Japanese ‘K’ Computer Is Ranked Most Powerful — SAN FRANCISCO — In the rankings of the world's most powerful supercomputers, a Japanese machine has earned the top spot with a performance that essentially laps the competition. — The computer, known as “K Computer,” …

Yup, YouTube Counts Video Ads As Regular Views — Movie trailers are among the most popular videos on YouTube. A typical movie trailer gets millions of views, but how many of those views are natural and who many are pushed as paid-for ads? Yes, movie trailers are all ads in a sense.

Google adds rainbow to search bar for gay pride month — There's a rainbow at the end of some Google searches. — To mark June as Gay and Lesbian Pride month, the search giant is adding a rainbow to the right side of the search bar when users search for “gay,” “lesbian,” “transgender,” or related terms.

PSD2 Compliance in Zoho Books — The Revised Payment Services Directive, also known as the PSD2, is a set of regulatory guidelines laid down by the European Union (EU) for finance, banking, and payment service companies.

Google Fi - a phone plan, by Google — We felt that most phone plans just weren't made with you in mind. So that's why we built Google Fi with features that real people actually want. Click to learn more.